The January edition of the ICCDNews is in the mail. Enjoy.

December 6, 1998

Hi everyone. We all hope that you all had a good Thanksgiving holiday.
A lot had been going on around the ICCD in the last few weeks. . .
Some highlights:

We moved! The ICCD offices have temporarily moved to 437 W. 47th Street
which (for those of you familiar with Fountain House) is in the Ellabee
Guest House. Due to renovations throughout Fountain House, many units and offices are being housed in temporary quarters. However, our mailing address, telephone number, etc, will all remain the same as always.
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The Training Base Meeting was held at Fountain House, from November 20 - 22. The representatives from the various clubhouse training bases began the process of developing a manual for training bases; confirmed the training curriculum; discussed the issue of unauthorized training; and considered training in the clubhouse model for other disability groups.
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The Swedish National Clubhouse Conference will be held this weekend,
December 3-4, in Stockholm.
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This week, certification visits are taking place in: Melbourne and Sydney,Australia; Wakefield and Quincy, Massachusetts; and Virginia Beach,Virginia.
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The Executive Committee of the ICCD Board met this week via teleconference to prepare for the January meeting of the entire Board.
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The Tenth Annual Meeting of the Faculty for Clubhouse Development was held in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, from October 16 - 18. The Faculty reviewed and improved the certification process, based on feedback from the worldwide clubhouse community.
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The December issue of the ICCDNews will be going to print this week.
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This week, at the ICCD we welcomed visitors from Sweden, Germany, and
Norway. Next week we are expecting a visitor from the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare of Israel.

As of the autumn of 1998

Hello everyone.
Sorry it's been so long since our last update!

First, we hope you have all received an invitation to submit an article for consideration for publication in the first edition of our new "Clubhouse Community Journal." We are extending the deadline until the middle of October, so you still have some time.

The issue we are exploring in this first issue is: Why Clubhouse? How Can Clubhouse Change the World?
We want the flagship edition of the Journal to focus on the unique contribution that clubhouses can make to the world: how they can fight stigma; change the expectations for people who have been diagnosed with mental illness; bring new hope and opportunities as we evolve and grow as a movement.

If you have spent time thinking about the unique place that the clubhouse movement has in our world, and can put those thoughts into writing, then do it ! Please, put something on paper even if you do not feel terribly confident about your writing ability.  We can help with editorial assistance if you can present some original thoughts which can help in advancing the thinking of the clubhouse movement.

After we have received all submissions, an editorial board will review the articles and choose those with new ideas and new perspectives. However, even if your article is not selected for this edition, it will be added to our growing archive of clubhouse papers and articles which will distributed to the clubhouse community in a variety of ways.

Send your submissions to:
ICCD -- Clubhouse Community Journal
425 W.47th Street, NYC, NY 10036
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Today, a group representing the ICCD is traveling to Washington D.C. to present a seminar to all interested staff at SAMSHA and CMHS (Center for Mental Health Services). Joel Corocoran, Executive Director of ICCD, along with a small group of members and staff from ICCD-Clubhouses (and one ICCD Board member) will have the opportunity to present the Clubhouse model in a formal seminar, and then to meet privately with a group of key players at these agencies.

This is an important chance for us to gain name recognition with major US mental health agencies.
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As of June 1st, 1998

HI!

10 IS is beginning to take shape. Progress Place and the ICCD are working together to begin preparations for the Tenth International Seminar on the Clubhouse Model, to be held in Toronto Canada in October of 1999.

Progress Place has just completed a very successful "logo contest," engaging many local graphic artists in a competition for the best Seminar logo. Many, many of the submissions were both aesthetically pleasing and consistent with the clubhouse "spirit." We are now in the process of choosing the winner.

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You will soon be receiving a letter from the ICCD asking for feedback about your clubhouse's experience with the ICCD certification process. All of this feedback will then be carefully reviewed by the Faculty for Clubhouse Development, which will be re-examining the whole certification process at its annual meeting next fall. Please spend some time with your whole clubhouse community discussing this issue, and send us your feedback as soon as possible.

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The new 1998 Directory will be coming out this summer. Please review the information about your clubhouse in the 1997 Directory and let us know if there are any changes (or mistakes). Call Dee Filipowicz at 212-582-0343 for corrections/amendments.
And remember. . . this will be a Directory only of ICCD member clubhouses, so join or renew your membership soon!

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There is now a clubhouse in Albania (the first). It is called "The Clubhouse in Tirana."

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The following clubhouses have recently joined the ICCD. We welcome them and look forward to working together:

Toowoomba Clubhouse, Australia

Flourish House, Scotland

The Clubhouse in Tirana, Albania

Friendship House, Massachusetts

Step by Step Clubhouse, New York

Moscow Clubhouse, Russia

Koo 'Lau Clubhouse, Hawaii

Klubitalo Nasinkulma, Finland

Lapplandsfontanen, Sweden

Clubhaus Schwalbennast, Germany

Hill House, Ohio

Beach House, Virginia

Crossroads, Nova Scotia, Canada

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This week we met with a group of vocational rehabilitation specialists from New Zealand, who are interested in learning more about the clubhouse approach.

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Have a great week.

As of  May 26th:
Hi everyone...

The Standards Review Committee met this week (via teleconference) to review the status of several proposals for amendments to our Standards. At the last meeting of the Faculty for Clubhouse Development (in Sweden last August) a sub-committee was established to more fully explore two proposed standards: one about relationships and one about consensus in the clubhouse. The sub-committee reviewed the proposals carefully and found that there was no strong consensus among the clubhouse community that
either should be included in the Standards, and also that they both were in
some measure duplications of already existing Standards. The sub-committee
is recommending that both proposals be rejected in their present forms.

There were also many wording changes proposed by the Fountain House Board
of Directors. The sub-committee found a few of these changes to be
improvements to the clarity of the document and recommended accepting them,
although many of the proposed alterations were not recommended by the
sub-committee.

There was a proposal to add a preamble to the Standards. The sub-committee
found that most people in the clubhouse community liked the idea of a
preamble, but felt that the one that had been proposed needed work. The
committee rewrote the preamble, which will now be sent out to the larger
clubhouse community for review.

The Standards Review Committee is also working on continuing to refine the
process for adding to or amending the Clubhouse Standards.
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A meeting was held this week to begin brainstorming the creation of a
"Clubhouse Community Journal." The journal will be a bi-annual publication
of the ICCD, and will include articles by members, staff, and other friends
of the clubhouse world. Each edition will be theme-based, and an editorial
board will be utilized to identify the important and timely trends/themes
within the community. There will be a rotating editor or co-editors, so
that each edition will be coordinated by someone with some specific
interest or expertise in that topic or theme. Articles will be solicited
both by a "call for papers" to be announced throughout the clubhouse
community, and by personal invitation to members and staff known to have
knowledge or interest in the topic under discussion.
The first issue is scheduled for late fall, 1998. ICCD-member clubhouses
will receive the journal at no additional cost, and others will be able to
purchase individual editions or to subscribe to the journal at an annual
rate.
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Next week we will be sending a letter to every clubhouse which will both
announce and explain the decision to change the ICCD Directory into a
directory of only ICCD-member clubhouses. As there has been such a rich and
lively discussion of this issue here on CLUBMAIL, the letter should be of
particular interest to all of you. The letter attempts to clarify the
intent and rationale for this major change in our Directory, and we will be
very interested in getting feedback from the community via CLUBMAIL.

HAVE A GREAT WEEK!

As of May 10th....

Hi everyone---

We are getting ready for another Faculty Training session, this time to be
held at Genesis Club in Worcester, MA. from May 11 - 15. The training is
both "talking" and "doing" (as is just about everything else related to
clubhouse culture.) The "trainee" faculty members are able to have an
actual experience of going out on a visit to another clubhouse, and then
have the opportunity to refine their skills in observation, and in
preparing and delivering the written and verbal findings reports. Both the
training team and the rest of the faculty-in-training offer in-depth and
constructive critique of each trainee's skill at accurately observing, and
in effectively communicating their recommendations and feedback to the
clubhouse they have visited. So far, every single Faculty training session
has been incredibly exciting and rich in opportunities to learn, explore,
explain, and better understand clubhouses.

Each training session consists of one- half members and one- half staff, so
that member/staff teams can work together the same way they do on actual
consultation visits. The faculty-in-training at this session will be: Mark
Buchanan (Fairwinds, MA); Jackie Peckoff (Fountain House, NY); Steve
Anderson (Fountain House, NY); Jose Rivera (Venture House, NY); Ellen
Bruder-Moore (Atlantic House, MA); Linda Buddle (Grand Avenue Club, WI);
Kevin Bradley (Genesis Club, MA), and Denise Hast (Genesis Club, MA). The
training team will be: Joel Corcoran, Robby Vorspan, Rudyard Propst, and
Carole Barrett.

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The Research Committee of the ICCD has drafted an evaluation tool for
research purposes, designed to measure clubhouses' fidelity to the model.
The draft is currently in review by several clubhouses involved in various
aspects of clubhouse research.

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The Spring issue of ICCD News is at the printer, and should be at your door
very shortly.....

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As the result of many, many requests for simple guidelines about how to
start a clubhouse, we are in the process of compiling a brochure about "How
to Start a Clubhouse." It will address basic questions about what a
clubhouse is, and then proceed to describe the strategies that have proven
most effective for clubhouses in their start-up phase.

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We are planning a preliminary meeting which will kick off our new clubhouse
journal, to be published twice a year. It will be a compendium of
clubhouse articles and papers, including personal perspectives and
interpretations of clubhouse life, new clubhouse practices and ideas, and
research relevant to clubhouses.

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At its recent teleconference meeting, the ICCD Training Base Group
finalized improvements to the three-week training curriculum.

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Have a great week!

As of April 20^th 1998
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Taiwha Fountain House, the ICCD clubhouse training base in Seoul, Republic of Korea, has recently informed us that there is now another clubhouse opening in Korea. The new house is in a city called Daijun. Members and staff from Taiwha Fountain House have visited the new clubhouse and are very excited about its potential. There are now three clubhouses open in the Republic of Korea.
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Ernest Yu, from Hong Kong, has recently visited the ICCD in New York. He is in the process of converting a traditional day treatment program in Hong Kong into a clubhouse. This will be the first clubhouse in Hong Kong.
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The ICCD Training Base Group will hold its teleconference meeting on Tuesday April 21. The main agenda for the meeting will be to finalize improvements to the training curriculum, which is used at all nine clubhouse training bases.
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Rudyard n. Propst (ICCD executive director emeritus) and his wife Robin Jackson are currently in the UK. They will be touring clubhouses and meeting with people involved with the international clubhouse movement.
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ICCD Update March 16, 1998

Hello everyone.
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The ICCD is going to publish a journal, to be called the "Clubhouse Community Journal." It will be published twice a year, and contain papers and articles about clubhouse practice and philosophy. An editorial board is being established to review articles that have been submitted. The editorial board will assess whether the paper/article is clearly written,and of general clubhouse interest. Papers that were delivered at 9IS are welcome. If you or someone you know has a paper that you think would be of general relevance and interest to the international clubhouse community, please send it to the ICCD, attention: Robby Vorspan.
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A new Board member has joined the ICCD Board of Directors. Felicity Nitz, who lives in New York City, has already become very involved in all aspects of the work of the ICCD. She has a particular interest and talent in development. Welcome Felicity!
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The ICCD Clubhouse Advisory Council will be meeting at Foutain House on March 28-29. The Council is made up of thirty clubhouse members and staff, drawn from strong clubhouses around the world. The mission of the Council is to advise, support, and provide perspective to the ICCD staff and the ICCD Board of Directors. The Council is also responsible for developing a set of annual priorities for the ICCD. ***************************************
A research paper entitled "Assessing Program Fidelity to a Service Model: A Content Analysis of Clubhouse Certification Reports" has been accepted for
publication by the 'Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal." The paper,
authored by Qi Wang, Ph.D., Cathaleene Macias, Ph.D., and Robert Jackson, Ph.D., is a... "content analysis of 15 representative certification reports
prepared by the Faculty for Clubhouse Development. The study was a first step in the construction of a research instrument to measure mental health program fideltity to the Clubhouse Model of psychosocial rehabilitation. The content analysis identified those references to the Standards for Clubhouse Programs used most often by ICCD Faculty in their determination of certification status. These criteria, which encompass both the viability of the clubhouse community and an assessment of organizational efficiency, provide a groundwork for constructing measurable indicators of fidelity to the Clubhouse model." (from the Abstract of the paper) ***************************************

The Western Regional Conference will be held at Sherwood Hills, a resort between Brigham City and Logan, Utah, from September 17-21, 1998.

The European Conference will be held in Karvetti, Finland, from July 30 - August 1, 1998.

The Northeast Conference will be held in Springfield, Massachusetts, from October 14-16, 1998.

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